Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3037 CWSA 12⧸05⧸25

00:00:00.000 morning so i don't know if you can see me or hear me on locals but you can see me and hear me on

00:00:07.040 rumble and on youtube and on x so this is uh the pre-show

00:00:19.120 normally the uh local subscribers are the only ones who see me before the beginning of the

00:00:24.160 regular show but trying to work out some technical problems which includes trying to take off my jacket

00:00:36.640 all right can anybody give me a sense of whether you can see me and hear me

00:00:43.360 all right so the rumble studio worked to initiate the stream okay all right

00:00:51.440 i don't know if everything was working but got a few things working all right like i said this is

00:00:58.480 the pre-show so there's no show yet this is generally just for the locals people to chat with each other

00:01:09.440 and share some memes um i'm only seeing locals though okay it looks like uh

00:01:23.840 yeah we got locals we've got youtube rumbles working now i think x is working all right uh this is the

00:01:33.200 point where if you were watching the pre-show you would see me disappear because i have to go over to

00:01:40.000 my printer say where you are i'll be back

00:02:00.000 all right

00:02:04.000 so what what you're seeing if you're just coming in is normally i do a pre-show just for the local

00:02:32.640 subscribers but the locals app had a hiccup this morning so i'm coming to you also on locals but

00:02:41.920 via the rumble studio which appears to be working just fine so this portion of the show is not real

00:02:53.120 this one is just so you can chat with each other or ask me questions or hang out a little bit

00:03:02.640 because i'm still in setup mode

00:03:11.040 all right we'll set up the height

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00:03:25.200 all right

00:03:29.120 lighting looks good

00:03:32.160 you got notes

00:03:33.200 well i feel like i shouldn't start early because the people who

00:03:46.480 the people who have been trained to come at this top of the hour are going to be hey

00:03:52.640 you didn't tell me you're going to start early i'm going to tim pool it all all over the place here

00:04:01.200 i'm tim pool

00:04:02.080 tim pool and no i'm not tim pool nobody's tim pool but tim pool

00:04:12.480 yep oh 700 i'll start i'll get serious

00:04:16.960 watch me go from not serious to serious

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00:04:24.720 all right we got seven minutes just hanging out

00:04:28.800 if you have any questions

00:04:33.200 this would be a good time to do it

00:04:36.560 by the way i'm so proud of myself oh no 0.95

00:04:39.520 oh oh no no no no damn it my printer

00:04:53.200 my printer is up again i was going to brag 0.93

00:04:56.800 because i thought i fixed it and cleaned the drum and followed all the ai instructions

00:05:02.480 but uh looks like a number of my topics i'm gonna have to skip because they didn't print

00:05:12.320 good lord what a day what a day

00:05:18.480 all right i can work through this though i'll make it work

00:05:25.040 all right while we're waiting

00:05:29.440 i'm going to check my oxygen levels

00:05:32.480 which sometimes are a problem but they've been good lately

00:05:41.040 uh

00:05:44.320 new drum is only yeah

00:05:48.480 boom 97 percent that's actually higher than my baseline my baseline is 95 because i have asthma

00:06:03.200 i've never i'll bet you that's the highest i've ever

00:06:09.200 yeah i think that's the highest i've ever

00:06:12.320 gotten without any artificial

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00:06:16.400 so that's good news

00:06:24.800 the power of positives thinking

00:06:26.560 get a laser printer it is a laser printer believe it or not it is a laser printer but it's black and white

00:06:36.960 uh

00:06:46.800 uh so i get a lot of angry angry questions

00:06:52.560 uh about candace owens

00:06:55.280 uh apparently many of you believe

00:07:00.480 that i should have a strong opinion about candace owens

00:07:03.600 do i need to why why can't she just do her top rated podcast and you can decide if you like it or you don't like it 0.99

00:07:15.760 what what what would my involvement

00:07:19.040 be worth you know yeah i don't know if the thing she says are

00:07:24.320 we'll check out how would i know i know that she is very entertaining and very talented 0.87

00:07:33.520 and i like her personally

00:07:35.120 the rest

00:07:38.400 it's just up to you

00:07:43.040 yeah

00:07:43.840 but i i just don't think

00:07:45.760 that my opinion on the topic makes any difference

00:07:53.520 well while we have a minute here

00:07:57.520 i would you like to hear a reframe

00:08:01.120 from my book reframe your brain which is one of the best things you could ever buy

00:08:06.800 for a christmas gift this assumes you have already you've already purchased the dilbert calendar

00:08:12.640 look it's a commercial the dilbert calendar this year and last year

00:08:18.960 had comics on the front and the back and on the back were the new spicy ones

00:08:25.920 but i had a

00:08:28.400 reframing i all picked out here

00:08:32.400 we'll start the regular show at the top of the hour this is the pre-show

00:08:37.360 all right uh here's one of my favorite and most powerful reframes

00:08:46.000 so the usual frame the way people normally think is that overeating if you do overate

00:08:53.040 it's a willpower problem if you add more willpower uh you can avoid eating that cookie

00:09:01.280 here's a reframe that's better overeating is a knowledge problem it's a knowledge problem

00:09:08.720 you know how um many of you already know that the uh the reframe uh alcohol is poison

00:09:18.480 was enough to make a whole bunch of people stop drinking

00:09:21.360 so the way you think about things will influence what you do and i find that if i think about food

00:09:32.080 as a knowledge problem and i know which things are good for me and which are not

00:09:37.600 i just automatically eat better so as long as you think about it as a knowledge problem

00:09:44.560 you'll just automatically gravitate to better food with no no real effort for example if you didn't

00:09:52.800 know that sugar donuts are a little bit bad for you you know too much sugar etc if you didn't know that

00:10:02.320 wouldn't you eat them of course you would but if i told you a sugar donut would

00:10:08.480 you know give you a 50 chance of getting diabetes which is not not true but just work with me here

00:10:15.280 would it be hard to avoid it it would not it would not so just knowing more about which foods are going

00:10:22.640 to be good for you and which are bad really just replaces willpower because you don't really want to

00:10:30.880 do things that are bad for you it just comes naturally that's why alcohol is poison uh is such

00:10:39.440 a strong reframe if you're just joining the reason i started early today is that the locals app was

00:10:48.880 having a hiccup so normally i do a pre-show before the regular show just for the subscribers but the

00:10:57.760 the pre-show wasn't working so i told them to skedaddle over here and now they're all joining you

00:11:07.360 those of you who are joining early so this will be interesting i want to see what happens at the

00:11:12.880 top of the hour here we go top of the hour you ready

00:11:30.640 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization that's called coffee with scott

00:11:36.320 atoms you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience

00:11:43.120 to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that

00:11:50.240 is a copper mug or a glass a tiger chalice a stein canteen sugar fast flask a vessel of any kind

00:12:00.480 does this sound to you like there's a giant garbage truck parked right outside my door

00:12:07.360 i don't know what that is but it's very loud i don't i hope the microphone is not picking that up

00:12:12.640 anyway uh fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee

00:12:17.600 and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes

00:12:22.320 everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go

00:12:29.040 oh so good so good well let's check the uh let's check the technology news

00:12:44.720 the science news and find out what science is teaching us well according to the mit technology

00:12:52.880 review michelle kim is writing that ai chat bots can sway voters better than political advertisements

00:13:01.360 that's right if you let somebody interact with a chat bot uh the chat bot will be more persuasive than

00:13:10.080 a commercial does that surprise you it should not because uh you're probably thinking to yourself wait

00:13:17.920 scott have you not taught us that the documentary effect is very persuasive even if it shouldn't be

00:13:26.480 yeah the the the uh influence from having one point of view uh reinforced you know with either

00:13:37.760 watching a documentary for an hour with no counterpoint would be very similar i would think

00:13:45.040 to having a chat bot that also had only one point of view that it considered valid so um yes a chat bot

00:13:54.480 should be more persuasive and i think we're also as humans we're also sort of built to assume that humans

00:14:04.640 might lie to us because they have personal interests where if you knew you were talking to an ai

00:14:11.520 you wouldn't necessarily feel that it's so obvious that the ai had a personal interest because it

00:14:19.840 wouldn't have a personal interest but it would certainly be um presented by someone who did so in

00:14:27.120 theory we should be just as suspicious of the ai as we would be of the person who built the ai but i

00:14:35.040 don't think we would i think it would be more persuaded just as the study shows i think you would be

00:14:41.680 more persuaded by the ai because you would think well the ai isn't going to lie to me is it well it might

00:14:48.480 or might hallucinate in other news and this is technology news according to the conversation

00:14:59.600 people who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive how many of you already knew that

00:15:07.600 that if people talk with their hands they can be way more persuasive than if they don't

00:15:14.160 but the key is you can't randomly use your hands so it's bad to be governor newsom

00:15:24.400 and do jazz hands because we always mock him because it looks like he's lying

00:15:32.800 and it looks like his hands are like not even connected to his brain

00:15:37.520 i don't even know why my hands are doing this really

00:15:45.280 i'm governor newsom and i can't stop my hands

00:15:52.160 so that would be an example of not persuasive but if you are saying that something is huge

00:16:00.640 huge and you use your hands the hand would be compatible with the message huge something's

00:16:08.160 going up something's taller than this that tends to be very persuasive so do more of that and less of

00:16:16.880 this don't do that all right i know what i just did to myself there that will get clipped

00:16:24.800 remind me never to do that again you you have my permission to drive to my house and slap me 0.99

00:16:35.520 if i ever do that again 0.83

00:16:38.960 not really don't slap me um let's see what else

00:16:43.760 oh here's a good one the wall street journal is reporting according to daniel axe that uh the more

00:16:54.880 oxytocin you have the faster you'll heal so apparently they've done tests where you can heal your wounds

00:17:05.440 faster oh my god there's just like a gigantic mechanical noise right outside my door

00:17:13.760 what the heck is that i'm glad it doesn't show up in the microphone um okay now it's gone but uh

00:17:20.960 wall street journal reporting that if you have oxytocin that would be the intimacy chemical if you're

00:17:28.160 intimate with somebody you love you get more oxytocin well apparently that's good for your healing now

00:17:36.640 i like to put a couple of things together here uh so if you want to be more persuasive

00:17:46.000 you would talk with your hands and you would use that to persuade somebody to be intimate with you

00:17:53.760 hey wouldn't you like to with me see how persuasive that was if i had done that without my hands 0.98

00:18:04.560 would you even be tempted to have sex with me no not even a little bit watch this will be without 0.99

00:18:10.320 the hands hey how would you like to have sex with me absolutely nothing would you agree that was not 1.00

00:18:18.720 persuasive not one of you said oh that's a pretty good offer i i think i'd like to have sex with him 0.99

00:18:24.880 right now despite his weird looking hat but watch now i'm going to say the same thing again but with 0.99

00:18:31.120 hand motions hey why don't you have sex with me you see how persuasive that was i know no stop this 1.00

00:18:43.520 was just a demonstration i know some of you are putting on your jacket and looking up my address 0.99

00:18:49.120 and ready to drive over here but that was only demonstration calm down calm down it may have

00:18:56.480 elevated your oxytocin though for a moment so if you see any wounds that are instantly healing that's

00:19:03.760 that's for me you're welcome uh did you know that according to the university of vienna that pleasant

00:19:12.080 sounding words are easier to remember so they actually did a test where they gave people pleasant

00:19:19.600 sounding words versus ugly words you want to hear some ugly words moist moist is on the on the list of

00:19:33.760 moist

00:19:37.040 so given that pleasant sounding words are easier to remember

00:19:42.320 um that means they're more persuasive because whatever tickles your memory the best tends to be

00:19:51.600 also the most persuasive so when i'm writing let's say professionally if i'm writing a book for example

00:19:59.760 the last step in my writing is i may go through and substitute more pleasant sounding words

00:20:08.160 words for words that are just a little ugly i used to do uh public speaking a lot one of the things i

00:20:14.800 would do during my public speaking is i would ask the assembled crowd which of these words is funnier so

00:20:23.600 i'd give them two words that mean about the same thing i'd say which which one is funnier pull as in

00:20:30.640 you're pulling something or yank which is almost the same thing not exactly and the entire crowd would say

00:20:40.320 as one yank there's something universal about words that sound right in general if you want to do humor

00:20:50.560 it's good to have words that have uh some hard sounds to them yank because you get the you get the k

00:20:58.160 but you also get the y so if you're if you're doing humor words that are not as often used

00:21:05.680 or they use letters that are not as often used q's and z's and y's um that's usually funnier

00:21:13.440 so the last level of my writing is i'll change the words to funny words if it's supposed to be a joke

00:21:20.800 or i'll change it to pleasant sounding words and i'll get rid of words like moist well

00:21:26.240 now i did write a whole book where i talked about moist robots um that did not catch on

00:21:35.680 it probably wasn't my best choice all right you may have heard that the pipe bomber from january 6

00:21:45.680 uh at least we think he's been arrested we're pretty sure we got the right guy i think

00:21:50.720 um as jake tapper described him that white guy so he says we found a white male who was the pipe

00:22:00.080 bomber the only problem was he is not white at all he apparently is a black man with a weird mustache

00:22:09.680 uh and uh i i i know of course obviously why jake tapper assumed it was a white man 0.97

00:22:17.920 man if i told you that somebody planted a bomb in the united states what do you think it was a black 0.95

00:22:26.880 guy you wouldn't would you because i don't i can't think of a single example of a black guy who planted 0.95

00:22:35.520 a bomb in america but if you said have any white guys planted any bombs i'd say well there's a unabomber

00:22:45.360 and i would just sort of assume it was a white guy crime so jake uh got a little ahead of himself

00:22:52.800 there but uh and then also did you see the way he was dressed the pipe bomb god what is that that

00:23:04.960 loud thing it's like a rocky ship outside my door uh

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00:23:40.240 if you saw the way he was dressed in a unfashionable hoodie with unfashionable uh 0.99

00:23:48.880 footwear would you have assumed that was a black american no because you're racist you're racist and 0.98

00:23:56.800 you would have said hmm i think a black american would be far better dressed than that than that guy 0.99

00:24:04.160 so that's where your racism would have led you in the wrong direction

00:24:10.640 but the uh the fascinating part about the story uh sean davis had a good take on it that captures a

00:24:18.160 lot of what you were thinking so i'm just going to read what sean davis um did on x he of the

00:24:26.640 federalist right i hope i have that right uh he said uh based on the volume and type of evidence

00:24:33.120 about the pipe bomber contained in this affidavit affidavit it is inconceivable that the fbi didn't

00:24:41.360 know who the pipe bomber was back in 2021 it looks a heck of a lot like corrupt fbi agents knew for years

00:24:50.240 who the bomber was but went out of their way to confuse the investigation so they could refuse to make

00:24:56.400 a definitive identification and that goes a very long way toward explaining the latest anonymous fbi

00:25:04.960 agent up against dan bongino and cash patel bongino and patel removed the corrupt agents

00:25:13.680 reviewed the evidence and swiftly identified and arrested the subject once all the corrupt obstructors

00:25:21.280 were out of the way does that sound about what you were thinking it does doesn't it do you think it's a

00:25:29.920 coincidence that once uh bongino fired or relocated the people who were in charge of it that all of a

00:25:38.160 sudden it wasn't hard to find out who it was have you been amazed that this is the one guy they can't

00:25:45.120 find they're finding all these grandmothers from the january 6 event but they can't find this guy

00:25:52.480 despite all of the video of him and really you know you could show one toenail of one of the january

00:26:01.040 six people and uh our technology would say oh i know that toenail that toenail belongs to and then

00:26:08.000 we'd put him in jail that's the old way they did not belong in jail but that's what would have happened

00:26:15.120 but no this uh this guy was a total mystery so i'm going to say uh that i do not believe the fbi

00:26:23.840 couldn't find him uh i'm going to be firmly in the camp that doesn't know for sure

00:26:29.600 right don't know for sure not 100 but my working assumption is that the fbi was corrupt and the

00:26:38.160 people that were removed from the job were more likely intentionally uh avoiding catching him for

00:26:46.080 whatever reason uh rather than incompetence or you know inability it gets even weirder because apparently

00:26:55.440 he works as a bail bondsman and it's a family business so his father owns a bail bondsman

00:27:03.920 business must be doing pretty well because it looked like the house that this guy lives in

00:27:09.280 is a high-end house and i don't believe you get a high-end house because you're just an employee

00:27:17.200 of a bail bondsman but you might have one if you live with your parents so i don't know for sure

00:27:22.880 but i would guess probably living at his parents home now if you lived at your parents home

00:27:31.840 and your your dad was a bail bondsman which means he has some kind of affinity for or connection to

00:27:40.320 the law enforcement world do you think his father didn't recognize the video of his son

00:27:47.200 walking around with that hoodie and those sneakers do you think you wouldn't recognize your

00:27:52.560 own son if you saw them wearing the clothes that they probably wear at home you don't think you'd

00:28:00.320 recognize that so i have some questions for dad um it's you know if i found out tomorrow that he didn't

00:28:11.200 wear those clothes ever at home or that he knew that he would be recognized if he wore his own clothes

00:28:17.680 and he had these only for the purpose of disguise which is possible by the way well then i would say

00:28:23.920 well and even your father wouldn't recognize you under those conditions because his face

00:28:28.960 his face was completely concealed but i feel like you would recognize your own prodigy you know the way they

00:28:37.360 walk and especially the footwear uh let's see anyway i got i got the bail bondsman thing from grok so if it's

00:28:47.840 hallucinating um you've been warned all right you know what tim birchette he's republican representative

00:28:57.120 from tennessee apparently he has asked president trump to cut off all funding for the ngos the non-government

00:29:05.840 government organizations that have often been accused of being giant money laundering fraudulent

00:29:14.560 entities um he says that he wants him he wants trump to cut off all funding to the ngos

00:29:21.920 until they can figure out where all the money is actually going because a lot of it is going into

00:29:28.320 people's pockets and it appears to most of us now thanks to the good work of elon musk and doge we

00:29:36.960 finally learned that there's a gigantic mechanism for taking your tax money out of your pocket and putting

00:29:46.000 it in the pocket of strangers while pretending to feed the poor and this is not a small operation

00:29:54.560 we're talking billions of dollars um you know i i've told you i've been puzzled by how we could have

00:30:03.440 such a big deficit because it kind of happened fast didn't it i mean even if you even if you

00:30:10.320 allowed that the pandemic made things worse didn't it seem like we sort of instantly

00:30:16.000 got to this impossible you know place where we couldn't pay our debts and i have to admit from

00:30:24.000 the beginning i've been thinking is somebody just stealing it but it seemed like the numbers were so

00:30:31.360 big that nobody could steal that much money i mean you can't steal you can't steal a trillion dollars a

00:30:38.080 year and now i believe you could i believe you literally could steal a trillion dollars a year

00:30:47.600 with this ngo mechanism because any one any one entity might be getting a billion here a billion there

00:30:56.960 but there are thousands of them just thousands of them yeah you could steal a trillion dollars if you

00:31:03.680 if you really worked at it and apparently they were working pretty hard so i have a generally

00:31:10.400 good feeling about timber chet meaning that he seems like a good patriot who wants to do the right thing

00:31:17.280 and uh i i don't think that he's robbing anybody so he wouldn't have anything necessarily that he needs

00:31:24.480 to cover up he'd be hard to blackmail i doubt i doubt he's got a you know love child somewhere or

00:31:30.560 something so you need somebody who can't be blackmailed who's clearly a patriot and has a

00:31:37.280 real interest in going after something like this does that does that include somebody like tim

00:31:45.040 i think yes you know i've seen enough of him that i trust him i i mean it's just a feeling you know

00:31:51.680 nobody can know for sure what's in somebody's soul but he looks pretty trustworthy to me so i think

00:31:59.520 that would be worth a shot well as bjorn lomborg often says um if you don't know who he is you should

00:32:10.320 he's a uh some call him an economist but i don't know if he would call himself that

00:32:15.680 but he's uh taught us to look at both the costs and the benefits of climate change he does other things

00:32:22.720 as well but he's well known for that uh meaning that climate change might in fact make some things

00:32:31.040 worse but we always ignore how much better it makes things and he gives us his latest example

00:32:38.480 i think he's got an article in the wall street journal um that the the hurricane season which apparently is

00:32:45.680 over had no hurricanes hit landfall in the united states and probably climate change has something

00:32:54.960 to do with that so if you were to actually be honest about your climate change analysis which is what

00:33:02.480 bjorn lomborg is teaching us to do you would say well i mean you have to include even if you imagine

00:33:10.000 climate you know ruin some parts of the world eventually you'd have to add him but it did save

00:33:16.000 us a hurricane or two uh if in fact that becomes a a uh let's say that becomes a pattern it's not yet a

00:33:24.640 pattern but if it becomes one uh we should say hey maybe this climate change has as much good as bad

00:33:33.760 that would be the proper way to approach the analysis um no matter which way it ended up that would be the

00:33:40.400 way to go uh scott blame it on okay i don't know what that means i'm looking at your comments so we're

00:33:52.400 still talking about the uh allegation that pete hagseth ordered a double tap attack on the narco boat meaning

00:34:01.440 that there were a few survivors from the first missile but a second missile was uh dispatched to take

00:34:08.240 care of the the survivors and get rid of the weapon of mass destruction that would be the drugs that were 0.76

00:34:15.200 on the boat um but so the wall street journal had one version of events but it's been debunked by

00:34:23.600 abc news the new york times so the wall street i'm sorry the washington post i think i said that

00:34:31.760 wrong scratch that the washington post had the story that appears to be 0.56

00:34:38.400 bullshit um that hank seth somehow was watching the attack and ordered the second missile 0.95

00:34:46.320 and then they're they're acting like that would have been a war crime well let's ask somebody who 0.99

00:34:53.200 actually knows what they're talking about uh so apparently a individual named david shed who is a

00:35:00.560 former deputy director and acting director of the defense intelligence agency in the obama administration

00:35:08.560 so this is important he's an obama guy who says quote uh we use double taps all the time he said you would

00:35:20.320 get the initial signature uh sign off of a target that's been hit he uh he said in a podcast recently

00:35:28.480 and if you saw that they squirted i guess that must be some military term and were injured you hit them

00:35:34.960 again in fact he said there was often a second predator that would be a missile ready to go

00:35:42.000 wait is a predator a drone or a missile for our purposes it doesn't matter in fact he said there's

00:35:48.960 often a second predator ready to go that was fully expected to be used if he didn't have a hundred percent

00:35:55.040 coming out of the first hit and maybe a third hit adding that it was done routinely and there was

00:36:02.240 bipartisan support on the hill for doing it isn't that enough it isn't it's a drone people are saying

00:36:11.120 so the predator is a drone but isn't it enough that somebody who would be in that position who knows

00:36:18.960 exactly what is real and what isn't who's actually been in the field who's actually you know ordered

00:36:24.480 attacks if that person says it was routine is there anything else to talk about 0.99

00:36:32.240 you know the people who are acting like it's a war crime are just idiot democrats who sit behind 0.99

00:36:39.680 desks i don't know that there's any military people who think it's a war crime 0.99

00:36:46.800 anyway um apparently secretary hankseth has asked the navy admiral who is overseeing those operations in the

00:36:56.320 caribbean to step down uh because that officer had voiced concerns about what he called the murky

00:37:04.560 legality of the attacks do you think that if there had been some other president do you think that this

00:37:14.800 this admiral would have had that problem given that we do know with high certainty that it was routine

00:37:23.840 to have a double tap and even a triple tap if he needed it do you think that this navy admiral

00:37:31.120 didn't know that and do you think that if obama had been president or if nobody had even brought this

00:37:38.480 up as a potential issue if nobody had ever brought it up would he be worried about its murky legality

00:37:47.520 i don't think so so was this a good firing yeah yeah uh i think that was a good firing

00:37:56.640 all right so well he's not really fired fired he's just gonna retire a couple couple years early

00:38:02.880 which is fair i mean he didn't it's not like he committed a crime or something so a little bit

00:38:08.240 of early retirement seems seems about that seems appropriate i wouldn't take anything away from him

00:38:14.800 um let's see let's uh let's look at minnesota for a moment so i guess the uh speaker of whatever

00:38:27.200 their political situation is demuth speaker demuth uh talked about the budget forecast and that they're

00:38:35.920 going to be short three billion dollars so there's gonna have a three billion dollar deficit in minnesota

00:38:42.800 uh and uh speaker demuth said uh quote last year governor waltz blamed increases in social services

00:38:50.720 spending as the main driver of the deficit that was created but we now know that much of the increase

00:38:56.560 was the result of fraud yep as i've been saying in a hundred percent of situations where there's a lot of

00:39:07.600 money involved and people are not watching it carefully as in having a robust auditing situation

00:39:15.680 which is most of the government stuff does not have a robust auditing situation that the inevitable

00:39:23.040 outcome inevitable you can't you couldn't stop it if you wanted to if you have lots of money involved

00:39:29.600 and nobody's watching it in in the sense of an audit of course it's going to be stolen

00:39:38.160 of course it is it's not ever going to go a different direction there's one way that goes somebody steals

00:39:45.680 it and that's probably what's happening but at least new york state doesn't have any problems oh wait

00:39:54.160 uh apparently uh governor hochel when she was uh what was she when she was lieutenant governor had a 0.99

00:40:05.680 aide or an assistant who worked in as a no actually it was a chinese spy who was working as the deputy chief

00:40:14.400 diversity officer now that's a bad combination here are two things you never want number one 0.99

00:40:24.000 you don't want anybody on your staff who later turns out to be a chinese spy that by itself would be bad 1.00

00:40:32.080 enough the second thing you don't want is a chief diversity officer and god knows you don't want a

00:40:40.080 deputy chief diversity officer because that's two more than you really needed so this chinese spy was a 1.00

00:40:48.480 death it was the worst possible combination chinese spy and diversity officer um and she held that role 1.00

00:40:59.360 since 2018 i guess um to 2020 um and she said in some kind of document that was recovered that hochel was uh

00:41:11.600 sort of easy to manipulate but uh it looked like the only thing that hochel did that was sketchy

00:41:18.080 was do some pro china video that she was asked to do for the 2021 lunar new year

00:41:24.080 so elise stefanik who's running for governor i guess pointed out uh yeah that uh governor hochel got

00:41:33.440 co-opted by a chinese spy to do a pro chinese video

00:41:39.360 that's not the most damaging thing that could have happened um i i think uh hochel just thought

00:41:45.040 she was servicing the you know the chinese american part of her uh constituents which wouldn't be a 0.99

00:41:53.360 crime so none of it looks like a crime per se but it doesn't look good doesn't look good

00:42:01.280 it makes you wonder how many chinese spies have we not caught you ever wonder about that you know i

00:42:10.560 i have this theory that most uh shoe salesmen if they're if they're selling women's shoes that they 1.00

00:42:17.200 have uh foot fetishes and the reason is that someone with a foot fetish would be willing to work extra hard

00:42:26.720 for less money because they're getting that secondary benefit from being a shoe salesman if you know

00:42:32.240 what i mean you know what i mean so that over time the people who are willing to sell shoes women's shoes

00:42:40.400 but also really really enjoy it more than you hope that they would

00:42:45.040 that they would be mostly the shoe sales people because if you were competing against somebody who loved it

00:42:52.480 it would be hard to compete if you were just doing it because it was a job so that over time the people

00:43:00.400 who would do it just because it's a job would find other jobs and they would move through that to other

00:43:06.480 things but if you're really really like selling the shoes like really really liked it and you got that job

00:43:14.800 would you ever leave you wouldn't you'd be there for the rest of your life it's like i got the best job

00:43:20.000 ever so the theory is that if there's a type of job where one type of person would like to be there

00:43:29.200 forever for whatever reason that eventually the job will be mostly those people so now suppose that

00:43:36.960 you're tasked by your your spy masters in china to get high level jobs in the government would you ever

00:43:45.840 leave no you wouldn't even look for another job because you are whatever level it is job within

00:43:53.440 the government would be exactly what your spy master required of you so you'd be killing it career wise

00:44:01.120 so in theory if you wait long enough uh the entire government should be full of spies because they're the

00:44:09.120 ones who don't go looking for better jobs ever right am i wrong you tell me isn't the normal arc

00:44:20.400 that the government should be full of spies if not today then guaranteed

00:44:28.480 fairly soon you know within say 10 or 15 years and we've certainly had a government for more than 15 years

00:44:35.360 so uh anyway uh in funny news the post millennials reporting that tim waltz is upset because uh the

00:44:48.480 president called him the r word retarded and he says i've never seen this before people are driving by

00:44:56.720 my house and using the r word in front of people he said this is shameful i have yet to see elected

00:45:03.040 officials a republican elected officials say you're right that's shameful you shouldn't say it so

00:45:09.920 look wall says i'm worried we know uh we know how these things go now wait for this you thought that tim 0.79

00:45:18.640 waltz was dumb wait for this next sentence you ready for this uh he goes i'm worried we know how these

00:45:27.680 things go they start with taunts they turn to violence so deeply concerned waltz added okay let me pull it 0.99

00:45:36.800 all together so tim waltz believes it's entirely appropriate to call republicans and trump fascists

00:45:45.760 and you know sort of nazi-like and he's not worried that that would turn into violence 0.81

00:45:52.960 calling somebody literally not joking but literally a fascist and a nazi or words to that effect

00:46:04.160 but while that's not dangerous according to waltz um it would be dangerous that people jokingly drive

00:46:12.480 by his house and use the r word which they only do because it's funny

00:46:18.080 it's funny it's funny in the sense that it bothers the people they want to bother you know not because

00:46:24.160 it's true true but because it's funny and trump said it and he got away with it so it sort of opened

00:46:30.240 the floodgate but do you believe that tim waltz really believes what he said does he really believe

00:46:39.120 that the r word as he says is the dangerous one that could lead the slippery slope to somebody getting

00:46:45.680 stabbed it's like well it started with the r word and next thing you know stabbing whereas calling

00:46:54.400 somebody a fascist and not saying you're kidding and everybody knows you're not joking that you're

00:47:01.200 actually meanest you don't think that would lead to a little violence really really is that your actual

00:47:09.120 opinion i don't know in order to have an opinion like that you'd have to be some kind of a

00:47:17.520 you'd have to be some kind of a well you'd have to be some kind of a fascist 0.53

00:47:25.280 you thought i was going to say retard didn't you no i wouldn't use that word 0.98

00:47:30.880 meanwhile steve hilton you probably know him from

00:47:33.760 uh his work on fox news i don't don't know if he still has a show or if he's moved on to

00:47:41.360 running for a california governor well he has uh launched a tip line to expose fraud in california he

00:47:51.120 believes that as bad as the fraud was in is in minnesota billions and billions of dollars of fraud

00:47:58.880 that california is probably worse because it's a bigger state and it's been a blue state for longer

00:48:05.840 and those are good reasons more money more democrats probably more crime i'm saying

00:48:13.600 so he said this is based on my very strongly held assumption that whatever we're seeing in minnesota

00:48:20.400 is a thousand times worse than california because many more years of one party ruled by the democrats

00:48:28.400 steve hilton you just got my vote you just won my vote uh you know i don't usually pay too much

00:48:37.600 attention to state politics but uh yeah that's all i want to hear i want to hear that you're you've done

00:48:45.280 something that's real because you think it's important to try to stop all the fraud i think

00:48:53.040 california's biggest problem is fraud because everything that happens here looks a little

00:48:58.720 suspicious you know it doesn't matter what you're looking at how about that bullet train uh where'd all

00:49:05.440 that money go how about uh you know rebuilding after the uh the fire uh nothing's been rebuilt

00:49:14.560 i mean one house maybe what's going on there's somebody is there some criminal thing that's stopping it

00:49:21.600 it it couldn't just be incompetence could it i don't know so yes i believe that uh rooting up the fraud

00:49:30.640 is essential i i think that having a fraud tip line would only be a small part of what they need

00:49:37.680 and i'm going to say it again uh i believe that zero tax money should ever be allocated for anything

00:49:46.720 that does not have a robust well-defined audit procedure

00:49:52.560 so if somebody said we need a billion dollars to build this thing i say all right let's start with

00:49:59.360 how are you going to audit it on a regular basis so it doesn't get stolen if the answer is uh

00:50:06.000 oh well uh we will we'll do something about it then no it doesn't matter if it's a good idea it's

00:50:13.760 clearly if you don't have an auditing procedure set up that's good and you know i i make a big difference

00:50:20.000 between some waving your hand audit procedure versus a very you know let's say a third party

00:50:26.960 uninterested party who's just paid to audit the hell out of it if i were a big consulting company

00:50:34.800 um and there are lots of them i would be pitching this as uh something that i can do for your state

00:50:41.920 i would say if you give me 10 million dollars a year um i'll make sure that we audit all this stuff

00:50:50.560 and we're not we don't even live in the state we're just consultants so you don't have to worry about us

00:50:56.160 trying to get our own beak wet we will change out our uh auditors every year so if you were a consulting

00:51:05.200 company and you wanted to make sure that you didn't become the problem by you know getting yourself

00:51:11.360 into this potential money laundering situation where you could you could launder it yourself

00:51:17.520 if you're a consulting company just say well we have lots of consultants and we'll make sure that

00:51:23.040 the ones that work on your state do one year they just do one year and then you have much less chance

00:51:30.480 that they get embedded and turn it into a criminal enterprise

00:51:33.680 yeah anyway um so the uh according to npr the state department is going to deny visas

00:51:44.080 to fact checkers and others who were involved in any kind of censorship

00:51:49.200 now i don't mind that as a standard i don't think the fake fact checkers and the fake censors should be

00:51:58.880 allowed into the country but it does make me wonder how many there are that you need it you need a

00:52:04.960 separate you know standard for that are there a lot of fact checkers trying to get into the country

00:52:11.920 who had fact checked us and uh in a way we don't like i don't know just kind of open question well

00:52:21.760 according to davis health university of oh the university of california davis

00:52:26.800 um there's a study that suggests that there's a brain nutrient

00:52:37.120 that if you don't have enough of it it might create anxiety and they found out that

00:52:45.120 if you eat more eggs the eggs have this uh this nutrient what's it called

00:52:50.880 uh choline c-h-o-l-i-n-e so if your choline levels are low in your brain

00:52:57.600 it's correlated with they haven't proven causation but it's correlated with anxiety so i went to grok

00:53:06.000 and i asked the questions that the article was missing and the main question was are people eating

00:53:12.640 more or less eggs than they ever did and the answer is people are probably eating more eggs now

00:53:20.240 than they did in the 40s so that would suggest that we were less likely to have a anxiety caused by

00:53:28.240 this shortage but we observe that people's anxiety seems to be worse lately than compared to the old

00:53:36.560 days so i'm not sure i buy this maybe there's a correlation but not a causation

00:53:41.920 but eggs are apparently good for you all right um so hakeem jeffries has finally grudgingly agreed

00:53:55.040 that president trump uh should get credit for closing the border which is now secure

00:54:01.920 fox news says that and uh jeffrey says of course he'll get credit for that

00:54:06.720 to which i'm thinking huh i'm actually surprised uh aren't you surprised that even though it's so

00:54:14.400 obvious that uh trump closed the border and the other leaders did not are you surprised

00:54:21.840 that one of the top democrats just even admitted it instead of changing the subject so i guess that's

00:54:29.120 the part that's interesting it's just that he said it at all well that might be because the uh

00:54:35.920 it could be the polling shows that people care less about the border because they consider it a

00:54:41.600 solved problem so it might be that you know there's no benefit to arguing that trump didn't close it

00:54:48.720 you know it's well that's old news it's closed moving on see if we have any other problems besides that

00:54:54.400 um so i i saw on ms now which used to be msnbc on lawrence o'donnell's show i think it was last night

00:55:07.120 that uh he had chuck schumer on and the two of them were introducing their newest hoax

00:55:12.880 um have you heard the new hoax about affordability all right you can tell that they're introducing a hoax

00:55:20.640 by looking at their faces with the sound off there's a certain smile that democrats do when

00:55:28.160 they're introducing a hoax and it's like this all right i've got a suspicious smile on i'm going to

00:55:36.720 introduce a new hoax and the hoax goes like this no i'm not smiling i'm not i'm not too happy about it

00:55:45.200 stop it stop it stop it i i i'm trying not to smile to give away the fact oh god i'm smiling again

00:55:52.400 i'm smiling uh okay ignore my creepy smile because this is how i introduce a hoax are you ready for

00:56:00.960 the hoax the hoax is that president trump is the only human being out of seven billion human beings

00:56:09.840 he's the only one who believes that affordability doesn't matter that's right because it's based on

00:56:18.560 something he said well i'm not going to quote what he said or put it in context because then you'll know

00:56:25.280 it's a hoax do you know how else you could know it's a hoax look at my creepy smile and lawrence

00:56:32.720 o'donnell has his creepy smile too we got two creepy smiles yeah that's how we introduce the hoaxes 0.91

00:56:39.680 because we know it's a hoax but we're trying to see if you're dumb enough to believe that there's 0.95

00:56:44.800 actually any human being who doesn't understand that affordability matters to people who don't have 0.98

00:56:52.320 enough money i'm not creepy you're creepy

00:57:01.040 all right that's enough of that stop it you're right jeep guy i need to just stop making that face

00:57:09.840 but i didn't start it that's uh that's a chuck schumer face

00:57:16.480 anyway no it is not true that trump is the only person on the world

00:57:22.320 who doesn't understand that affordability matters

00:57:28.880 so i was thinking to myself how are we doing on affordability

00:57:32.720 so i made a little list of the things we talk about when we talk about affordability

00:57:38.000 and let's uh see how trump is doing how is he doing on eggs well really well the price of eggs is

00:57:46.720 down and i do think we can attribute that to the actions of the trump administration

00:57:52.880 now probably the egg prices would have drifted back to normal uh anyway but i do think that uh

00:58:00.000 trump goosed it his people did a good job so we'll give him eggs how about gas gas definitely

00:58:07.760 um certainly the uh the trump instinct to go for maximum drilling and drill baby drill and getting

00:58:17.120 rid of obstacles for that yeah that definitely caused the gas prices to go down so we'll give him eggs

00:58:23.520 we'll give him gas what about groceries in general no to groceries in general especially beef

00:58:31.520 uh not so good they're they're still high and even if they're not inflating much from where they are

00:58:40.480 they're kind of too high so um now keep in mind that it doesn't mean that trump gets the

00:58:47.920 the credit or the blame for every kind of price and every kind of situation it's just is what it is

00:58:54.400 groceries are high what about rent well the recent news is that rents have actually fallen a little

00:59:02.480 bit from october to november don't know if that's a pattern yet but it would make perfect sense if

00:59:09.120 you paired it with the the knowledge that uh 2.5 million uh people have been deported that should create 0.99

00:59:17.440 a little bit less demand a little less demand means a little lower rents and sure enough

00:59:24.240 of one percent lower so he gets i'll give him rent could be more but we'll give him that how about

00:59:29.920 interest rates well he's been working pretty hard to get those interest rates down and i believe they're

00:59:36.800 lower than they were is that true lower than when he took office but they'll definitely be lower when he

00:59:43.440 gets his own hand chosen fed uh you know fed head in charge so i'd expect i'd expect the inflation uh

00:59:53.600 interest rates to go down what about inflation uh inflation is not great but it's not terrible

01:00:00.640 it's sort of just limping along so it's not the worst thing in the world but you know it could be

01:00:06.240 better uh what about automobiles well i don't know if we've seen the impact yet um especially because

01:00:15.760 there would be tariffs on automobiles from other countries but um he did recently get rid of that

01:00:24.000 biden era idea that uh your your gas powered car would have to get 51 miles to the gallon on average

01:00:33.280 so he got rid of that which should cause more availability of low-end cars that uh would cost

01:00:41.760 people less because the gas would be less and um and then the cost of the car would be less if it's

01:00:48.480 purchased uh if it's built in america then you don't have the tariff problem so automobiles i'll give him

01:00:55.440 that uh i don't think we've seen the drop yet but he's done the right thing to get that drop and what

01:01:01.280 about entertainment um entertainment doesn't seem like that's going down maybe it's going up i don't know

01:01:08.880 but entertainment's not the most important thing in the world

01:01:14.080 so here's my take um on affordability trump's actually done pretty well if you look at all the

01:01:23.040 categories pretty well there's a lot more you could do and we would like him to do more and

01:01:27.920 it looks like he is but uh he's going for it um and then i was thinking about the you know what would

01:01:37.760 you do to make food less expensive and i'm going to give you some brainstorming on that on that topic

01:01:46.800 these are not meant to be great ideas the way brainstorming works is you just throw in some

01:01:53.120 ideas that maybe you hadn't thought of before and then it spurs you or encourages you to think of your

01:01:59.840 own ideas and if there's more ideas there's a greater chance that one of them will be useful

01:02:07.040 so i'm just going to throw out some ideas for reducing costs number one idea would be to have

01:02:15.120 some kind of mechanism where local farmers could more directly and legally sell to consumers so where

01:02:23.200 i live you might have the same situation on the weekend there'll be a farmer's market and but i

01:02:30.560 would have to get in the car and drive to the farmer's market and it doesn't have everything that

01:02:36.000 i'd want doesn't have meat for example um so there's some things i think the government probably prevents

01:02:43.680 like meat is my guess um but suppose you removed obstacles and said yeah the farmer's market can

01:02:52.160 deliver it to your house deliver right to your house so then if i didn't have to drive to it

01:02:58.640 and it was the local farmer so that would cut out a bunch of steps and a bunch of people taking a cut

01:03:06.400 could i get it cheaper i feel like i could so there's probably something you could do

01:03:13.280 that would make food a lot more accessible and cheaper if you just got rid of all the middle people 1.00

01:03:19.840 and said okay the farmer can sell this now would it be more dangerous yes it would

01:03:27.600 probably because you can imagine there'd be you know a farmer who didn't meet all the standards etc

01:03:34.880 but here's what i think don't you think the farmers eat all their own food

01:03:41.120 if you're a farmer and you're selling beef you don't think you're eating the beef yourself of course you

01:03:47.440 are if you're growing a certain vegetable you don't think that the farmer's family is eating that

01:03:53.040 vegetable of course they are what would make you feel more safe eating the same food as the person who

01:03:59.440 grew it or some government entity told you it was okay i don't know you you might be more comfortable

01:04:07.920 eating what the farmer eats um how about if you started a uh a government grocery store stop stop

01:04:18.720 you're just assuming a bunch of things that i'm not going to say wait till i say it and then tell me

01:04:24.320 if you like it or not okay and in the government grocery store it wouldn't try to reproduce every kind

01:04:30.560 of the product there wouldn't be any um of the highly processed foods wouldn't be any none but it

01:04:40.000 would also be a very limited set of choices that were designed to be affordable and because it's a

01:04:47.680 limited set of choices you can bring down your expense of providing them let's say it was only chicken for

01:04:55.520 protein and maybe two or three kinds of fish that are you know accessible and easy that's all your

01:05:02.560 proteins and then let's say it's not every exotic vegetable in the world but you definitely have

01:05:08.960 broccoli people like broccoli and whatever are let's say the top five vegetables so everybody's got one

01:05:15.680 that they like um and and so let's say your grocery store has i'll just pick a number 25 goods but

01:05:27.200 they're the ones that most people would eat they wouldn't be delighted because it wouldn't be that many

01:05:33.120 choices but there's a lot you can do with chicken you know what i mean you know once you get a home you

01:05:39.920 can make it taste you know any variety of ways so i think the thing that the so-called government

01:05:48.320 grocery stores have done wrong is probably tried to produce the same amount of choices as a regular

01:05:55.360 grocery store that's probably where they go wrong i would like an option if i had very low income an

01:06:03.680 option to have more boring food but it's really easy to get and it's cheap i'll accept boring because

01:06:11.920 i'll i'll spice it up on my end it doesn't have to be exciting on your end anyway that's one idea and

01:06:19.200 then another one this is really interesting there's a futuristic dome for growing food new atlas has a

01:06:26.720 story about this so instead of the old greenhouse they figured out this dome where the bottom levels

01:06:34.720 of the dome are a variety of fish and i think there are several layers of just fish and then they

01:06:41.520 contribute to the ecosystem that feeds the dome so that the dome is as close as you can get to a

01:06:48.560 a self-contained self-fertilizing um situation and it requires a little bit of technology so i think you

01:07:00.480 need to move things around with technology and probably you need some ai to know what needs some

01:07:07.440 attention so you don't need too many humans in there but apparently this is already built and uh

01:07:15.600 already been demonstrated to work so at the expo 2025 osaka kansai in japan um they've already produced

01:07:25.600 one and it's a farm to table but the farm would be just this dome and let's see what else it says

01:07:35.600 um the fact that it already exists makes this a lot more interesting it's not it's not uh theoretical

01:07:43.040 so it's a seven meter diameter 23 foot dome um and it it's meant to sort of uh imitate what a real

01:07:55.440 earth situation would be for each of the levels and it's a futuristic greenhouse well i think that's

01:08:02.400 where we're heading so imagine if you started your city with a futuristic greenhouse that would serve every

01:08:12.080 maybe 10 homes uh and then you just build around that what salmon is the best to buy well don't get me

01:08:24.080 started on salmon you don't want to hear it well in other news hawaii is suing tick tock for what they

01:08:34.240 consider harm to children and they think that tick tock has built a platform to be dangerously addictive

01:08:42.000 for young users now do you think that that's true do you think that they built it to be dangerously

01:08:50.800 addictive well i don't think they meant it to be dangerous but i'm wondering about where do you draw

01:08:58.720 the line if if i sell you a dilbert calendar for 2026 and you open it up and you go oh oh my god

01:09:10.160 oh my god oh my god it's oh these i i am so happy i got a dilbert calendar wait wait oh my god there

01:09:18.480 there are cartoons on both sides oh both sides this is new oh my god

01:09:23.680 and then you can see my my dopamine is is firing i can barely help it i mean i'm just like

01:09:33.680 now when i make the dilbert calendar irresistible because it's so good am i going to get sued by

01:09:42.080 hawaii will hawaii allow the dilbert calendar to be sold good question right so although i'm joking

01:09:51.840 sort of a little bit although i'm joking there is a real question here about freedom and about

01:10:02.800 what's the difference between really really liking something and being addicted because of the

01:10:09.120 dopamine hit i don't know how you could ever make that distinction because again the dilbert calendars

01:10:17.280 so dopamine you know tickling good that i don't know what you do good luck hawaii good luck tick tock

01:10:28.800 um i haven't talked about the situation with tina peters who's a grandmother who's in jail because she 0.99

01:10:36.800 tried to um find out if the uh the voting machines were rigged and i guess she gave somebody access

01:10:46.080 to them that she should not have given access to for the purpose of finding out if there was some

01:10:52.720 crime that had been committed now she's a cancer survivor she's 70 years old and she got what nine

01:11:00.480 years in prison now can you think of a situation where somebody technically violated a law which she did

01:11:10.400 she technically violated the law but her intentions were good and there was no victim you get nine years for

01:11:21.440 that your intentions are good not for yourself this is very important her intentions were for the public good

01:11:31.120 let me say that again her intention very clearly was for a public good what she did for herself was take a

01:11:41.920 gigantic risk for the public good and there were no victims and indeed i don't know what happened with the

01:11:53.280 with the access and whether everybody found anything but aren't you happy that she did that now i know you

01:12:01.280 can't just let anybody break any law they want because they think it's a good idea to break it i i get that

01:12:07.440 you have to have something like you know law and order for even things where it's not obvious there would

01:12:14.000 ever be any victim i get it i get it but what would be the right penalty for someone who took a risk

01:12:21.520 upon themselves with nothing to gain for themselves for the benefit of the larger community

01:12:30.640 and there's no victim and there wasn't really an uh there wasn't really a chance that there would

01:12:36.960 ever be a victim it wasn't an accident that there was no victim it's obvious there would be no victim

01:12:44.800 we would either find out something we didn't know or we wouldn't that's it yeah i'm thinking six months

01:12:51.520 probation would be about the right thing for that now trump has entered the uh the debate on this and

01:12:59.200 on her side uh but he does not have the power to pardon her because i guess the charges are state charges but

01:13:07.040 uh i guess the colorado democrat governor democrat governor jared polis um is keeping her in and is not

01:13:17.280 is uh not going to free her i do think this probably needs to be a bigger uh a bigger issue

01:13:26.480 and i do think that if this uh if this governor gets reelected

01:13:31.840 and is keeping her in jail for purely political reasons uh i don't think he should be reelected

01:13:42.080 that's all i'm saying that's just horrible behavior horrible and i think trump is uh accurately found

01:13:50.160 another 80 20 issue it how many people think she should be in jail now it's not even really

01:13:58.400 democrat versus republican is it i mean really not really um so this seems like an 80 20 to me

01:14:10.720 all right well we wish you the best

01:14:14.480 um here's another funny story apparently uh i didn't know it but there was a thing called the u.s

01:14:20.880 institute of peace which i guess the government the federal government funds

01:14:26.800 but it supposedly operates somewhat independently trump is trying to cut their budget but i guess they

01:14:36.640 use the law to try to fight that off so they're in some kind of weird gray area where the government

01:14:45.040 gives them money but doesn't have full control over their activities so what trump did because he

01:14:52.640 couldn't cleanly just take take their funding away and close them down uh he changed their name

01:15:04.080 this is very funny he changed their name and and put the new name

01:15:11.520 on their building so that they can't even cover it up easily and the new day

01:15:16.400 the new name is the uh the president trump uh i don't know u.s institute of peace or something so he

01:15:27.040 put his own name on it oh no it's the donald j trump institute of peace and it actually it actually

01:15:32.800 says that over the door now all right now that's just funny we're gonna be so sad when we ever get a

01:15:41.680 normal president because i mean seriously can't you imagine what the meeting was like when they came

01:15:49.200 up with that idea they must have been roaring with laughter it's like all right we didn't get what we

01:15:55.200 want but we're gonna get some fun out of this it's the donald j trump institute of peace

01:16:02.800 anyway it's great

01:16:07.040 all right uh

01:16:12.080 derek chauvin who as you know is in jail for being convicted for murdering uh george floyd allegedly

01:16:21.760 um so he's uh he's trying to get a new trial and uh his arguments are well he's got a good argument

01:16:31.600 um for a new trial but here is my take derek chauvin was convicted in a very different environment than we

01:16:41.600 have today at the time if you had been a juror and you had not convicted him you might be in physical

01:16:50.560 danger for not convicting not voting to convict him i don't think that's the case now and we also

01:16:57.680 believed or a lot of people believe that there was a big problem with uh black citizens being killed by

01:17:04.240 white policemen but now we know that was never the case there was not a big problem or any problem really

01:17:11.680 it was not above you know any kind of baseline so if you knew

01:17:19.840 if you knew that we do not have this big problem and you knew that you were not personally in danger

01:17:29.200 uh if you had voted to you know let him go but here's the other big thing do you remember what we

01:17:35.760 thought of doctors during the george floyd's uh era that's when we still believed the doctors were credible

01:17:47.760 and so there were several doctors who said oh yeah that's totally murder

01:17:53.520 and the jurors being normal citizens believe that uh oh if you know if doctors say that it was murder

01:18:03.600 you know who am i to doubt the doctor now fast forward to 2025 we do not automatically think doctors

01:18:12.880 are credible in fact doctors have been quite unreliable secondly we know that people were probably being

01:18:23.680 influenced by the um just the feeling of the day that there was some kind of you know horrible thing

01:18:32.480 happening to black citizens that wasn't happening to white citizens but we don't really think that's

01:18:37.920 true anymore or at least people are paying attention no it's not so i would suggest that the same set of facts

01:18:46.880 that got him convicted if it were to happen today exactly the same way i don't know

01:18:55.120 i feel like at least one juror would have said nope so i think is oh and also he wasn't allowed to

01:19:04.240 introduce the fact that they were trained to do it that way really wasn't allowed to say that

01:19:11.760 but we know that that's the case all right

01:19:15.360 um i've got a few more stories but let's see

01:19:25.440 um apparently there's a new app called vantor from vantor tech where it looks like they've

01:19:33.200 simulated the entire earth down to about a three meter difference now imagine if you will

01:19:45.360 um the ability to create a simulation if you could simulate the entire world with an app

01:19:52.720 all you need now is to add characters could you add characters oh god and so much pain

01:20:00.960 all right i i'm gonna have to end early um i did all the stories that i cared about the most

01:20:08.000 except that i think we should look at humanoid robots to mine our rare earth materials turns out

01:20:16.880 there are several companies working on robots for rare earth material mining so that's happening all

01:20:24.160 right everybody that's all i got for today thanks for joining uh locals i'm not going to try to do a

01:20:30.080 separate after show today i'm not sure the technology even works but i will see all of you tomorrow

01:20:38.880 tomorrow bye for now

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 05, 2025

Episode 3037 CWSA 12⧸05⧸25

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